Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year ago today, the USS Harlan County, filled with American and Canadian troops, was not allowed to dock in Port au Prince, turned back by a group of Haitian thugs. President Clinton's Haiti policy was widely ridiculed and lay in tatters around...
...conceivable that Haiti can be transformed into a country where the domestic political will of the Haitian people could be legitimately translated into governance...
...York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly took charge of the 1,000-strong international monitoring force in Puerto Rico, which the U.S. is sending to Haiti to restrain and retrain local authorities: 300 monitors were to arrive by the weekend. But it will be months before the new Haitian police can be counted on to enforce civic order fairly. In the meantime, the U.S. wants to make clear that it will not tolerate mob violence, but is uncertain how to convey the message...
...Pentagon continues to worry that G.I.s will be forced into the gap as Haitians fight one another. An unreleased army report paints a bleak picture of the future, calling the occupation a "prescription for disaster." Author Donald Schulz, a Caribbean expert at the Army War College, writes, "We can train and otherwise try to professionalize the Haitian military and police, but as long as the dominant culture places a premium on authoritarianism, dishonesty and the use of force, the new military and police will eventually slip back into the patterns...
...capos' wake, the police and armyhave become utterly demoralized and ceased to be a power in Haiti, TIME writerMarguerite Michaels reports from Port-au-Prince. "It's not a police force in anysense that we understand it," she says. Raymond Kelly, the former NYPD chiefnow helping to rebuild the Haitian force, said he was having trouble getting thecops onto the streets at all. Without Haitian security, U.S. forces are fearingthey may have to fire on looting pro-democracy Haitians if the returningPresident Jean Bertrand Aristide can't control his people. "So much depends onAristide, and there is so little trust...